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APPARATUS FOR FORMING AND DlVlDlNQ BOMBE 0R SHELLS MADE 0F ICE-CREAM.

SEECIIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,588, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed March 19. i866. Serial No. 1215.578. (No modeLi Patented in France October 17, i885. No. 171,7l0, and in Belgium Oct ybei' 20, 1F85, No. 70,594.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Simson J ULrnN, a citizen of France, residing at Nice, in the Republio of France, have invented a new and lmproved Apparatus for Forming and Dividing Bombs or Shells Made of Ice-Cream, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved apparatus for forming and dividing bombs or shells made of ice-cream into small pieces bythe use of an explosive charge, upon which invention Letters Patent have been granted in France October 17,1885, No. 171,710, and in Belgium October 20, 1885, No. 70,594.

The invention consists of a receptacle or mold provided in its interior with a mechanism or device for cutting ice-cream into small pieces by the use of an explosive charge placed in said mechanism. Y

The invention also consists of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be described hereinafter,and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure l is a vertical cross'section of my improvement in the form of a bomb, the interior mechanism being shown in section on the line o: x', Fig. 4:. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig is an elevation of my improvement in the form of a shell which is opened, the interior cutting apparatus being shown in section on the line m y', Fig. 4. Fig. t is a, plan vieuv of the dividing or cutting mechanism.

The receptacles or molds :may be made in different forms, as represented in Figs. 1 and 3, and consist of tivo or more parts, u and a', hinged together at Z). The form of mold shown in Fig. l represents a bomb, and the form shown in Fig. 3 shows a shell. The bomb shown in Figul is provided in the upper half, a', of the mold with an opening, e, which can be closed by a screw-cap, e', provided With a central aperture, e, and projections e* formed on the bottom of the soreivcap e.

The cutting apparatus rests on the lon-fer part of the bomb or shell, having a foot, s, on the upper end oi' which is placed a tube, 71, in which asecond tube, p, titsloosely. Said tube p is closed at the bottom and rests on a coilspring, q, placed inthe bottoni of the tube h. The latter is incloscd by an envelope, if, having a polygonal crosssection and having faces It 152 k3, 85o., which are provided at their ends with Wings g. The lower ends of the faces it are hinged at l to the tube h, and the upper ends of said faces are provided with hooks o, Which engage, when closed, with the upper edge ofthe tube p. the middle of each face k', ki, or k3, and is provided With aspring, r, which rests against the outer face of the tube h.

A plug, n, is fitted over the upper edges of the tubes 7i and p, and the hooks c of the faces k', it?, and k3, the upper end, n', of said plug n being held in place either by the projection ei on the under side oi' the cap e', as shown in Fig. 1, or by the aperture e2, formed on theopend of the shell-sections a. and a.

The operation is as follows: Theipterior of the mpldislrstlined or coated with a chocolatecrcam mixture', and then the cutting mechanisrn is placed in the center-of the mold in its closed positiointhehooksb beingengaged with the upper edges ofthe tubes p and It, and the plug n closing the openings ofsaid tubes. The prepared cream is then poured into the mold so as to cover completely the cutting device, and to be incased by the lining of the chocolate-cream mixture. Theiirnu'atus is then/placed in a freezer, so as toproduce the article known as ffice; cream. After the mixture in the/mold is frozen the mold is A recess, m, is formed in opened and the icecreamfinolded`in the form l,

of a bomb or shelh canlgtlem ont of the mold, the'ci'ttii'ig mechanism-being inside and the outside of tleboui'lo"orsh'ellv having a metallic appearance given it by the chocolate covering of the ice-cream. The plug a is then removed, and the tube p is filled with an explosive charge provided on top with a powder which, when ignited, produces a colored light before the charge explodes. The ice-cream bomb or shell is then placed on the table, and the charge in the tubep is ignited so as to pro- IOO duce iirsta colored light, after which the charge in the tube explodes, whereby the tube p is forced downward, so as to set the hooks or catches o free, whereby each face lc', 7a2, or 7ci is pressed outward bythe force of the `spring r in the recess m pressing against the tube h.

This swinging motion of the faces ofthe en` velope le cuts the bomb or shell of cream into three or more pieces, which can then be served in any desired manner.

The mold a a is provided with feet c and with handles d for convenience in setting it on the table and moving it from place to place.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by-Letters Patentl. The combination of a mold with a cutting mechanism, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination of a mold hingedin two or more part-s,and provided with legs and handles, with a cutting apparatus inclosed by an icecream mixture in said mold, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination of' a mold hinged in two or more parts, partly lledwith an icecream mixture, with a cutting apparatus provided with twotubes, a coil-spring, and a dividingenvelope hinged in three or more parts to the outer tube, and provided with catches on its upper end, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. The combination of a inold made in two or more parts, a and a', hinged at Zi, with acutting mechanism placed 4in the said mold, and provided withthe tube h, in which tits atube,

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consisting of three or more hinged sections,y each provided with a face, k, the wings Q,and the recess m, the springs i', andplug n, substantially as herein shown and described. y

5. A cutting mechanism consistingof the tubes h and p, `the spring q, and the envelope Iemadelof three or more hinged pieces provided with wings g and catches o, t-he springs 9*, and an explosive charge placed in the tube p, substantially asherein shown and described.

rlhe foregoing specicationof my irnprove-f` ment in a new system of iced bombs or shells signed by me thislSth day of February, 1886.

SIMEON JULIEN. Witnesses:

A. N. HATHEWAY, A. R. HATHEWAY. 

